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Peter MackayPeter Gordon MacKay (born September 27, 1965) was the final leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. In December 2003, he agreed to merge the party with the Canadian Alliance to form the new Conservative Party of Canada, of which he is now the deputy leader. MacKay was born in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, the son of PC cabinet minister Elmer MacKay. He was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons on June 2, 1997 for Pictou-Antigonish-Guysborough, a riding in northeastern Nova Scotia. MacKay was one of a handful of new "Young Turk" PC MPs (along with John Herron, Andr Bachand and Scott Brison), who were considered the future youthful leadership material that would restore the ailing Tories to their glory days. In his first term of office, MacKay served as Justice Critic and House Leader for the Progressive Conservative parliamentary Caucus. MacKay won the PC leadership convention held on May 31, 2003, after a deal with rival leadership candidate David Orchard. MacKay promised a review of the NAFTA free trade agreement, and also promised that no deal on electoral cooperation would be made with the Canadian Alliance. He soon broke this deal, and the Progressive Conservative Party merged with the Canadian Alliance under the name of the Conservative Party of Canada. MacKay's efforts to sell the merger to the PC membership were successful, as 90.4% of the party's elected delegates supported the deal in a vote on December 6, 2003. The PC caucus, however, had some holdouts, including long-time Tory MP and former Prime Minister Joe Clark, and Scott Brison, who left the party to join the Liberal Party. MacKay announced on January 13, 2004 that he would not run for the leadership of the new Conservative Party of Canada. On March 22, he was named deputy leader by new Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper. MacKay's longtime fiance was Lisa Michelle Merrithew, daughter of former Mulroney cabinet minister Gerald Stairs Merrithew. They reportedly ended their engagement in 2004. MacKay has since been romantically linked to Belinda Stronach in published reports. In an interview in the Toronto Star on January 8, 2005, Stronach confirmed that she and MacKay are dating.http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1105130003955 MacKay, Peter MacKay, Peter MacKay, Peter MacKay, Peter
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